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Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

German physicist, satirist and Anglophile.
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

There is something in every person's character that cannot be broken — the bony structure of his character.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


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There is something in every person's character that cannot be broken — the bony structure of his character. Wanting to change it is the same as teaching a sheep to retrieve.



Internet Archive - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) : essai sur sa vie et ses œuvres littéraires (fr) 



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Dans le caractère de tout homme, il y a quelque chose qui ne se laisse pas briser : l'ossature du caractère.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German
In jedes Menschen Character sitzt etwas, das sich nicht brechen lässt — das Knochengebäude des Characters.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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A man of wit is lost, if to his wit he does not join energy of character. If you have the lantern of Diogenes, you must also have his cudgel.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 






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Quotes

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg also said...


What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





We all err, but everybody errs differently.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Quotation of uncertain origin / 





He could refract an idea which everyone thought simple into seven others, as the prism does with sunlight, each finer than the other, then gather together a host of others to recreate the white light of the sun, where others merely saw disorder and confusion.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Is it not peculiar that a literal translation is almost always a terrible one? And yet, anything can be translated well. One sees here what it really means to understand fully a language; it means to understand fully the people who speak it.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Do not have too artificial an idea of man but judge him naturally. Don't consider him too good or too bad.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 







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